Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-08

President TO the Fittieth Congress, declare
that the sentiments of the message are
direct attack upon their industry, one OF
the most important OF the country
snd in positive violation OF the
national Democratic platform of 1884 as
! INTERPRETED by party leaders and accepted
by the rank snd file of the party; that the
argument made by the President for the
removal OF our protection against foreign
competition is an old one repeatedly
made by the enemies Of our in
dustrjsI progress aud effectively answers
] in nearly every school district OF our
! land, and so thoroughly disproved by the
| logic of facts and the demonstration OF
experience and history as to need no an
swer from Us. We acknowledge that our
"sma!I holdings" our scattered and
unorganzed condition makes US
the easy prey Of the free
to expect something different from the
chief executive of the nation at once
the most happy and conrented of shy OF
the world, made SO By the policy OF pro-
| lection and development which he now
seeks to destroy. We had right to ex-
pect our President would favor the wool
REOhGIS vi EHC OuItSA OhoSSS1
and we confess our deep
dissnnointment that instead he
tsvors the IN erests Of our foreign COM
petitors. Justly alarmed at MS position
we make an sppesl from his recommends
ton to the pee pie; to Gil the peopI ; 10
the seven and three fourths millions Of our
fellow ciuiZens engaged IN g. r12ulture;
70 the millions engaged in manu- ,cturlng,
10 the srmy Of wsg workers whose wages
are maintained By protective system, 10
the JradesmeR and the merchants Wh0Pe
prosperity depends upon 1t. we
are confident thsG the decl-
sion Riu be based upon justice
and patriotism, and therefore tpr the
maintenance Of the American policy OF
protection to which the country IS IN
deOted for lis uneXsmpled prosperity. 10
demonstrate the Injustice OF the Pfesl-
dents policy aud the fsllscy OF the
remedy ne proposes for the reduction OF
the surplus, We point TO the 1acJ
that il thu whole amount OF the revenue
derived from wool was s1onSned 1t would
reduce the surplus only about S5OOO,UUO,
or less thtn ten cents per capla OF the
o pulalfOp, which is paid BY foreigners,
while the old war tsXes he recon- mends
re,siDeC the yield over Sll9, OOO,UOO, and
IS al ect tex per capita I 81 each, an0
is what max s up the greet buk Of sur
plus IF $40 600 000 aad which fosters
most dag Gus monopoly. We would
therefore add the following stGusGcs:
The annual revenues derived from the
Imports Uf>Wool urd der the tariff OF 1867
Yves less than SI700. Under the reduc q
tariff # '83 The revenue last year Was 80,
900 700 TIE TumJer # sheep i" ne
c, IN " in '84 was 30 6G2. 662. In 1887 it
was A, 1874 1893, G decrease Of nearly
600 coo aud q oiminuu0u # the annual
WOO product f over 5000 OC0 p0uuGs;
thus showing that me reducing OF the
1suf Oy the set IF 1883 mas Increased the
revenue from Imported wool and
diminished the number Of sheep IL
the UuiCed states Y per cent. and
The suHuzI product IL the same proper
ton. TIE Presidents policy would bring
about Nc destruction 81 III INDUSTRY emo
fbe same policy CT reduction or a0ull[lon
f tariff would end IN disaster TO The other
industrial productive business OF the
country.
WANT TO ORGANIZE PERMANENTLY.
Special to tn Glzeae.
WASHINGTON, Disc. THE conference
Of WOOL growers aud 0esleTs was con-
sinued at the E05i5 house to-day and an
snswsT 10 the Presidents views on the
wool question, as expressed IN his mess
age, was formulated snd will be given as
vide 8 circulation as possible, and steps
were taken to-day to establish perm1-
uent organization Of wool growers snd
dealers Tae representatives, Of the
WOOL manufactures had not arrived to-
NIGHT